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The online home for Revolver Magazine and the Golden Gods Awards delivers hard rock and heavy metal news, Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock, music video, photos and moreFri, 31 Jul 2015 17:01:26 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2Star & Dagger’s Sean Yseult Picks Her Top Five Horror Movieshttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/star-daggers-sean-yseult-picks-her-top-five-horror-movies.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/star-daggers-sean-yseult-picks-her-top-five-horror-movies.html#commentsFri, 16 Aug 2013 12:00:01 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=51938Co-founded by metal lifer Phil Anselmo and true-crime author Corey Mitchell, the inaugural Housecore Horror Film Festival goes down in Austin, Texas, October 25 – 27. Brazilian horror legend Coffin Joe will be there, Nekromantik director Jörg Buttgereit will be there, The Manson Family director Jim VanBebber, Goblin will be there live-scoring a screening of Susperia while Mayhem vocalist Attila Csihar will provide a live score to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in his Void ov Voices alter ego. Down, Crowbar, Eyehategod, and Warbeast will play, as will Anselmo’s solo project, Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals. All in all, it will be a sick, twisted, and terrifying experience for all who attend. In anticipation of the event, various members of the HHFF staff and bands will be providing weekly lists on a variety of ghoulish topics; here, Sean Yseult–the bassist of one of the other performing bands, Star & Dagger, and of course the former bassist of White Zombie–picks her Top Five Horror Movies.

1. Frankenstein “My all time favorite monster and horror movie, hands down. The horrifying beauty of the monster, the laboratory, and the cinematography, in glorious black and white, are just a few things that make this great. Not to mention the nod to the common practice of grave robbing by doctors for cadavers back in the day, and the gore of assembling various corpses together. It’s also not often that you identify with the monster and feel compassion for it–or is that just me?”

2. At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul “The world this demonic man concocts could not be more sinister: sadistic, evil, and full of graveyards, murders, and torture. This mortician beats the shit out of people with his cane just for laughs! This is the first Brazilian horror movie ever made, and the first in a trilogy. Truly twisted and demented, star Coffin Joe is no joke–I met him on his home turf in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and having his claws next to my eyeballs while laying in his coffin did nothing to alleviate my fears! I look forward to and fear seeing him again in person at the HHFF!”

3. Spiderbaby “What’s scarier than an incestuous family that all mentally deteriorate at a certain age, regressing to cannibalism and murder (and more incest)?! How about two age-inappropriate young girls flitting about in slips, simultaneously trying to seduce their uncle and then kill him? The family story gets weirder; a must see–again in glorious black and white!”

4. Suspiria “Argento and Goblin, aaah the glory!!! A haunting and beautiful film from one of the best directors in horror, with my favorite band creating the soundtrack. I seriously cannot believe I am going to see Goblin live at HHFF! Not to mention the plot: a ballet academy run by a coven of witches? Sounds like my childhood upbringing!”

5. The Shining “The idea that a place can consume you is terrifying in itself. Add a crazed Jack Nicholson with an axe, a haunting bartender, two beckoning little girls, a possessed little boy, a waterlogged corpse that comes to life, and you’ve got a party. Next stop? Blood-filled elevators! A Star & Dagger favorite, we are in the process of shooting a video for our track ‘In My Blood’ that makes many references to The Shining, hoping to premiere at the HHFF. See y’all there!”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/star-daggers-sean-yseult-picks-her-top-five-horror-movies.html/feed1Photos: Rob Zombie on Twins of Evil Tourhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/photos-rob-zombie-on-twins-of-evil-tour.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/photos-rob-zombie-on-twins-of-evil-tour.html#commentsTue, 23 Oct 2012 21:11:33 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=39294Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson have teamed up for a co-headlining trek dubbed the Twins of Evil Tour. Check out these photos of Rob Zombie at the Camden, New Jersey, stop on October 19. All photos are courtesy of Derek Brad.
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]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/photos-rob-zombie-on-twins-of-evil-tour.html/feed2Former White Zombie Bassist Sean Yseult Pays Tribute to Dimebag Darrellhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/former-white-zombie-bassist-sean-yseult-pays-tribute-to-dimebag-darrell.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/former-white-zombie-bassist-sean-yseult-pays-tribute-to-dimebag-darrell.html#commentsThu, 08 Dec 2011 20:00:37 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=29169Today marks seven years since Pantera and Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell was killed onstage. This week, we are posting remembrances of him by his friends. Today, former White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult (pictured left) recalls some of Dimebag’s greatest pranks. Having toured extensively with Pantera, she became close friends with the guys and chronicled that friendship in photos last year with her book I’m in the Band. The new, 100th issue of Revolver, which is available here and on newsstands on December 13, features a free pullout poster of Dimebag.

You played some pretty big gigs with Pantera, including some in Japan. What do you remember about those?It was really funny ’cause we flew with them to Japan, and we’re all the way in the back in economy with all the roadies and crew. And Pantera were up in front in the second level of the airplane in these big swivel chairs, dining like kings. Luckily, I was kind of like their mascot, so I was just hanging out with Pantera the whole time in the upper deck. It was just so funny.

Dimebag had a reputation for being a prankster. Did he ever get you good with a prank?He did this one he loved so much that he did it twice. I used to wear these engineer boots all the time. And he got like a hundred dollars worth of pennies, and he sent a roadie to run out in the middle of our show and fill pour the pennies into my engineer boots so that they wedged all around my feet and ankles, and they felt like they weighed a hundred pounds. It was just so heavy I could hardly move. And I’d come off stage, and he’d say, “Junior,” he called me Junior, “did you feel weighed down?” He was just fucking with me.

He did so many things. He used to do this horrible character where he put on this old man mask and a cape. He had this huge plastic dildo thing. And he would whip open the cape, and somehow he filled it with dish liquid or something. And somehow that large projecting thing would just start squirting all over everywhere. And he would do that right in the middle of our show.

He did so many pranks constantly. He did the one million and one Super Balls, I think it was St. Louis. Another time, at the end of the tour, they got a snow machine. And they made it snow on us for like an entire song. And all this fake snow was in our gear and fucking up everything. It would just never stop. It was onstage, offstage. He put a big inflatable shark on top of our bus. Everything had some significance and meaning to him, but I don’t remember what that could’ve meant.

Did you ever get him back?Oh yeah, there’s a photo in my book. He was always talking about his stomach being “clubbed up “when he felt fat. So I had this back brace, because I’d broken a rib on tour, and I made it Darrell’s “club holder,” and I labeled it and slapped it on him. Another time, I think this was actually in a Pantera video, on our first tour with them, Dimebag always used to wear this Nine Inch Nails shirt. So I got this roadie to go on his bus and get his clothes out for me, and then a hat, and then his guitar. I had a little troll doll that had hot pink hair, it looked just like Darrell’s beard, and I taped it on my chin and kind of just mimicked him for a song or two. That was pretty funny, But yeah, whatever we could do, we were just trying to entertain each other all the time. The other thing was he always said “three” when somebody stuck a finger in their ear. Me and my friend in Tokyo made these huge fingers with the number three on them and we were jabbing him in the ears onstage.

It sounds like you were very close. Did you keep in touch after the tours?Yeah, he was really like a brother to me. We were so close. I hadn’t talked to him in a little while when I moved to New Orleans. We lost a little touch. He was still out there touring. I was unfortunately at the funeral, and it was just very surreal. It’s still impossible to believe that he’s not with us.

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/former-white-zombie-bassist-sean-yseult-pays-tribute-to-dimebag-darrell.html/feed4Final Six: The Six Hottest Chicks/Ugliest Dudes in Metalhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/final-six-the-six-hottest-chicksugliest-dudes-in-metal.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/final-six-the-six-hottest-chicksugliest-dudes-in-metal.html#commentsThu, 20 Oct 2011 21:21:36 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=26272Chris “Fatneck McFlabbyass” Krovatin is the author of two young adult novels, Heavy Metal & You and Venomous. He is currently working on multiple new writing projects, as well as new material with his local New York metal band Flaming Tusk. He is a freelance writer for Revolver and generally comes off as a good-natured pain in everyone’s collective ass.

Let me be frank with you guys: I totally love Revolver’s Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock issue. It’s arguably my highlight of the heavy-music-magazine year (second only, of course, to the Hit Parader Dick-Touching Tournament). Now, while some readers may snicker and say, “Of course you do, Chris, you fat fucking onanist,” you’re missing the point. The issue is rarely tawdry or disrespectful, but rather a reminder to myself, and hopefully to others out there, that there are many confident, talented, and beautiful women making extreme music right now. (To be fair, though, as a man who likes his women reality-based, the issue could use a plus-size metal chick or two.)

Similarly, I don’t respect an all-male metal band unless at least one of them looks like he’s going to eat my face, take 30 shits, and die. For dudes in extreme metal, hideousness is currency; in fact, the misshapen mugs of Jagger, Vicious, and Kilmeister lead me to believe that rock and roll itself is saturated with a tradition of calculated freakishness amongst men, which only adds to their overall sexiness. When I see a metal singer trying to gyrate me into submission, I get pissed; when he looks like the thing next to the trashcan I passed on the way through the parking lot, I’m down like a clown. So, step right up, Golden Gods and gross bastards alike, for my picks for the Six Hottest Chicks and Ugliest Dudes in Metal.

The Six Hottest Chicks In Metal:

1) Doro Pesch Not only is Doro still incredibly fine in her 40s, she’s also unspeakably metal. When you imagine a post-apocalyptic warrior woman, you think of Doro Pesch. No. 1, easily.

2) Liz Buckingham of Electric Wizard Every metalhead dreams of finding a cute blonde in a denim vest who just wants to smoke weed, worship Satan, and play thunderous doom-metal guitar all day. So simply put: Ms. Buckingham is every metalhead male’s dream come true.

3) Karen Cuda of Nashville Pussy The streaky-haired bassist for Southern metal’s filthiest band is an energetic biker babe built for sin. There’s something enchanting about a woman who might beat you up…

4) Sean Yseult of White Zombie With the face of a cherub, the bass of a mortician, and the threads of a sideshow freak, Ms. Yseult will always be remembered as as the band member who brought credible sexiness to one of the sexiest bands in metal. Unless you’re really into dreadlocks and cowboy hats.

5) Grace Perry of Landmine Marathon Not only is Landmine Marathon’s singer one of the most brutifal vocalists in metal, but she’s incredibly nice, and a Trekkie. So a smoking nerd who screams death metal. Jesus.

6) Dr. Mikannibal of Sigh This stunning saxophonist-vocalist for Japan’s premiere black-metal troupe has a PhD in physics and records her parts in the nude. Just be careful, boys—on her MySpace page, her first two interests are “prostate” and “urethra.” Yikes…

The Six Ugliest Dudes In Metal:

1) Erik Rutan of Hate Eternal The best death-metal vocalists are the ones who actually look like they’re going to murder you in a cave and eat your bones. Well, this guy has bone-eater written all over his severe, misanthropic face.

2) Billy Milano of S.O.D. I feel like it’s one thing to have a mean-looking frontman, but it’s another one entirely if he’s an offensive, lumbering, drug-crazed fat fuck. Points to metal’s funniest band for their freakish singer.

3) Devin Townsend: OK, these days, the genius behind Strapping Young Lad et al. looks like this (see left). But remember, he once looked like this. Oh yeah. You can’t un-see it.

4) William Murderface of Dethklok This unhygienic, overweight, club-footed gap-toothed piece-of-shit bassist is a perfect representation of everything disgusting about death metal. What can I tell you, pobody’s nerfect.

5) It of Abruptum Fuck glam metal, it’s all about getting laid. Let’s be the anti-glam and try to never, ever get laid! I know! Let’s hire a repulsive corpse-paint-caked dwarf for a frontman! Brilliant work, everyone!

A description reads as follows: “Dimebag Darrell, Sean Yseult, and Philip Anselmo created this absurdity at 6 a.m. after a long night of drinking on a Pantera/White Zombie Tour in ’92. Recorded on Darrell’s 4-Track in his hotel room, the song was made up on the spot with Darrell on guitar (and drum machine) Sean on bass, and Phil singing. This comes from a cassette from Sean Yseult’s archives, never heard before!”